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Aw, we tried to make this a bit more pro, but sometimes the really fun moments in life are fleeting. So here it is warts and all. But don't mind that - just get out onto the dance floor with Reg! It's ok: he's up to date on his shots.
When…
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RPM 2011
No explanations left to give apologies over
She wanted more than the story, but nobody told her
I hear the insane are hardly worth the medication
But she'd like the story just the same, for when she gets older
It's not the end…
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Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
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This is a tune I wrote to illustrate how silly the state of world affairs had become. Or maybe I was reading too many old story books...who knows...
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RPM 2011
I thought god was watchin me
Believed in grand divinity
The holy ghost and jesus too
Cause that’s what all the good boys do
Lies (it’s all)
Went to church and Sunday school
Called all the unbelievers fools
But just like santa and…
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Last night sudden inspiration. I loved it since the very first. I hope you like and/or enjoy this jazzy tune.
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A remix of a performance by laptop/guitar duo Wasp and Pear. Remixed with iPod touch and Filtatron app.
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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I (oz) wrote this one for Thanksgiving. Didn't have time to record it for the holiday, software was on the blink! Anyway just a simple song of being thankful for what I do have in my life and being grateful for all the blessings in my life…
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Just the traditional tune. I've always loved it.
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Now you have to make a decision. Do you go with it or against it?
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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Thanks everyone for the input!! I guess i'll go without vocals
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from the new album "Orange"
They say, a bitter man's a bitter friend to find
They say, a bitter man is better left behind
Touche, my bitterness is the only way
They say, that face you make will stay that way
They say, tomorrow is another…
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Today I received my AXiS 49 midi controller from C-Thru Music. It is excellent and has a groovy “selfless†mode that gives one 98 individual notes – more than a standard piano. I couldn’t resist trying my hand at an improvisation.
The…
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arrow down hill is the name of one of my favourite bands - and the dude is one of my dear friends...i wrote this on his birthday...so its my tribute to his great musicianship...didn't start out that way...just happened...and so it became 'arrow…
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took a little phrase I lazily sang into the built-in mic & tweaked it out into a little piece (most of the filter effects are natural).
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If you like my music and are interested in picking up a copy of my album, please visit http://www.cellxadore.co.uk !
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This is an absolutely beautiful song written by Jon Foreman for his side project Fiction Family and I felt like givin it a shot soo I just kinda learnt it and threw it together theres a few flubbups but they kinda workout well in the end
enjoy :)
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i wannabe the driver of the oncoming train
whose headlight is the light at the end of the tunnel
one hand clutching my whiskey bottle
the other hand waving the very very very very last
straw that broke the back of the camel that passed
through…
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You know what to do and you know how to do it.
The piece is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit.ly/Pronoia…
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loops i hate you. i hate how easy you made this. just kidding. this was a shhtload of fun.
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Thanks to Colin for writing, performing and producing this song, and for letting me mod it. I think it's a great tune, benefits from an uptempoing. This is Hot Wheels Spaulding reimagining Colin's song 'The View'
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Written and Recorded June 6, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, DADGAD Capo V), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
Rachel, you are my hero...
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The first real fully arranged Garageband piece from a few years back (before I realized you could actually RECORD using the program).
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The song...how it should be and will remain except needs better mixing and mastering. This is what it will sound like on the album just about. Which is going to be titled "Cryptical Condition".
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A coin tossed...
As usual, served best with headphones
Enjoy!
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Its my first attempt at writing a piece for piano. I think this would probably best be played by two players..
if I ever write out the piece on paper, it might have to be so.
I would value any of your comments greatly, as I greatly want to improve…
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I set myself the challenge of making a track this evening. I've uploaded it with 2 minutes to spare.
I started out with a wind chime instrument in Kontakt. I sequenced it using the PX-18 sequencer and then fed three different version of it…
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A song about a boat or is it about a woman...or both?
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I've gone more acoustic for this piece with bass and guitars courtesy of Jaz Arwand and the lovely, airy sound of Jess Spencer's voice. The song is about empathy or lack thereof.
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Sentiments I think most of us feel at one time or another.
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Daft Punk and Wire hire Le Tigre for an homage to Bert Convy.
And the password IS 'raincoat.'
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I guess I knew this would happen. Talk about creating one's own reality Sheeeeesh. End of the month and my pen has been re-fueled and I added some vox to this one, plus some lead guitar, and a bit of synth strings. I also took a shot at some…
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Part five of the ten-part suite. The tracks segue continuously, so downloading them all and listening to them together is the intended experience. Thanks for checking it out!
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Somehow this outlaw stuff comes out every time i have to do my taxes ...
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Lyrics:
I spend all my time with no one
And I just live with my mistakes.
I’m so tired of being lonesome.
This is more than I can take.
I can’t wait, I can’t wait…
For someone I can hold on to.
For a love that will be true.
For someone…
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afterdark
midnight is approaching, the city still alive
moaning and blinking and on into the night
downtown, afterdark
someone is reading, someone needs a light
someone is hustling, and someone starts a fight
downtown, afterdark
a boy…
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Finally changed the strings on Mr. Taylor.
DGDGBD
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"Fordham & Walton" is a slinky, earthy groove with concise and funky guitar work, dynamic pocket drums, head-nodding bassline, authentic percussion and raw, soulful vocals.
From Soulganic's debut album "All Directions Forward".
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Otherwise known as the 'opus'. This song was my life for a good year. Left forgotten in the dusty hills of Santa Fe. This is pretty much the A section :)
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D-Day is the first Utopian Hedonism song, build within the Reagan's speech about the Normandy Landings (6 june 1944)
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Just a quick and fairly awful test of the RobRokkenAudio Vocal Air beta plug. Simple two string cigar box guitar and vocal are both only processed with this new plug.
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This is the audio version of my blacksmithing lesson which can be found at http://ironangelforge.blogspot.com/
This webcast covers more detail on the blacksmith's forge.
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After yesterday’s crazy-fun, flow-filled session, I returned to planet Earth.
10 minutes into today’s session, I was crashing, so I took a 40 minute nap. I couldn’t get back on track afterwards (which is typical anyway), so I decided a walk was…
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So i sat in my room one day incense burning, with my $100 pawn shop 2nd hand bass guitar which i painted white with the same paint as my walls and i turned the reverb on full and started doing volume swells with the knob on my guitar.. i sat for…
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a fragile little piece.
Instrumentation: broken harp, kitchen sink, electric piano, drum programming, vocals, and loads of wine.
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Ok, so on this one I wear my influences on my sleeve. This is one that quickly went in one direction so I decided to ride it to the maximum. I still like the words to this one. I'm no Costello (Elvis) but I did ok here.
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The events in this song took place on and around an interstate outside of Detroit, MI named Seven Mile Highway.
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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This was written while living in the studio. For some reason this song seems like music appropriate for a chase scene. This is all bass and drums...no guitars yet. Vic's working on it.
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Recorded: Feb 20, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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"Move your body to the drumbeat of war..."
I will update with lyrics later, this song is a work in progress but I wanted to get it online before I start hating it. Did you really think I would end the year without a political song? Jingo Bells…
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well....this song was written after a long conversation with a friend of mine. We talked about making a difference in the lives of those around us. How is that done? Is it done by working like mad? never seeing the kids? What are we taking with…
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this is a remix done by mc jack in the box
[right click on arrow and select 'save link as' to download]
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I discover some cool synths and get carried away again.
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A pop-rock thingy recorded in 2006. Can't remember too much about it except that it was a new song then, I spent an inordinate amount of time on the lyrics and arrangement, and wasn't that happy with it when I was done(!).
I quite like it now…
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all in 13 note per octave
pianoteq
brazille
abelton tension in native mpe and tuning mode
created for tuning of the month
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been reflecting a lot on the last year recently. That message about going through something to get to somewhere better. I have to keep hold of that.
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This song was a favorite of a dear friend we lost a year ago. It felt like a good song to practice the piano. This was the first try -- not that it was good, but it just kept getting worse.
The vocals sound distant because they are... the microphone…
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Forever Unshaken
Chorus:
Still Your love remains the same, unshaken by our ways;
Though some turn their backs on You, Your mercy never fades.
Patiently You wait for us, to rise from where we fall;
Even when we choose the night, Your light…
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This could be profound
A holy fountain
Of our unbounded love
Home ceases to be
A place so much as
Simply us (and how!)
This is firmer ground
My core announces
That falling down with
The one who picks you up
Isn't true falling
You…
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O I sing I hate the wind
it keeps me from you
people say I'm no good
how can that be true
and the day is cold
and the leaves have turned
and air is sour
and the grass has burned
a knife that's looking for a sheath
but finds instead…
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He takes all of his clothes off and jumps into the Seine
The water is cleaner than it ever has been
The car needs for you to drive it, or else it doesn’t move
The car needs for you to drive it, I hate to make you choose
It’s like a still…
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Who will break this ice
sleepwalking through the pines
Said I won’t tell you twice
100 million times
You can’t pay the price
We’ll never get the bill
You don’t need to atone
And though it’s such a thrill
To heave the first stone…
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it's fuzz and it's delay but it's more folk + 90s alt rock
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Bind My Heart
Verse 1:
Here I am—did You call, Lord?
In the still of night, my heart hears Your voice.
Forgive me, Father, for running once more.
Bind my heart, my feet, and desires to Your humble throne.
Chorus:
Lord, You are my peace…
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Another workshop project. "Write something beginning in the future tense." Not perfect, but it was a fun exercise. For anyone trying to count it, the time signature is in 8, but the 1, 4, and 7 and 8 are accented. Then for the chorus the feel…
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samples music by Smokey Robinson and George Martin
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[Verse 1]
We should be colonizing Jupiter
But we’re just getting stupider
Move to the moon way from here
So when doomsday comes we’ll live on
Don’t you wanna live on?
Get on the spaceship and give the human race a chance to expand on
Keep…
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Sort of a love song ... in a rejection sort of way.
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Such a dark atmospheric track by Alan's Morrissette, and when the fab Naomi asked me to produce and record the back track, I was well up for it, and was quite a challenge! But with her amazing vocal range and the mastering skills of Billy (13111y…
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It was a few strange April days in our little town of Bad Münder. The sky was low and completely filled (with clouds?), and a yellowish light spread as if from below, and from everywhere. Irene had said at the time that it must have been the wind…
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Mash/mix for Sound-In featuring William Newbold, Dnane and Jim Goodin. Mix and slide Bass VI by Kavin.
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19 edo - simultaneously played on Korg Monologue XD, ASM Hydrasynth Explorer
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Into the wind I felt it
Let her in
Past all the scenes I sold
In fewer words the motives
Can’t begin
They’re always pacing pacing
And I’m looking for a red eye
And my train’s not coming round
And I can’t defend tonight
I gotta take…
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Robbie’s ode to a favorite vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording, arrangement
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024.
WEST
I’m always walking backwards looking forwards
Dragged back to the past
You think i’ve got nothing left but for loving you
But babe thats not all I do
I dream when I am not…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
HOW I LOVED YOU
From playing in the school yard
I couldn’t disregard
The love that felt for you
I fell hard
The storm that you brought
Yeah brought a little rain
But what is love without a little pain
Pulling…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
LET YOUR LOVE BE BOLD
Lonely is the path I walk
I Stand straight, stand tall
I’m not afraid to show my love
I Love with my all
Love is something that I need
To make me a better man
to round the edge into the…
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Song 5 for RPM 2024. Sat at our piano for this one and got a bit carried away!
More of an atmospheric piece and the title track of my RPM "album". I love doing vocal harmonies (I grew up on CSNY). Thanks to anyone who listens :)
Oh…
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Written for FAWM '24
[VERSE]
I think I may have sinned
I've welcomed thoughts, that stray me from my path
Now I don't know how I begin
When there's no light to guide me back
[PRE]
I'm devoid the moral guidance
To know right from wrong…
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If this sounds like it was recorded in a single take on a $7 USB microphone, and then cheesy audacity reverb thrown in, that's because it was.
The old guitar and its player are both on their last legs, but unpacking after a move it beckoned…
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The original demo for this song. A curious archival document.
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5th track of album Paradise. A jazz/blues instrumental tune.
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A song written an recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in September 2023
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2023 50/90 idea number 31 becomes finished song number 22.
Finally, a song that I actually like. I mean, I legitimately like this one. Has there ever been a hit single in 7/8 time? Could this be the first?
All guitar tracks are a Les…
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Velvet web is about the lies that we tell ourselves when everything is falling apart. "It is perfect right now, why would you want to change it..."
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Keys_of_Marinus_(TV_story)#The_Velvet_Web_(2)
Verse…
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https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Marco_Polo_(TV_story)#Five_Hundred_Eyes_(3)
She is ready for the higher power to guide her actions. She knows she needs AA and an accountably partner. She prays the prayer of serenity every night:
God, don…
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(interpolates lyrics from "Shit on Tu" by Alex Dionisio)
[Verse 1]
Two-tone, that’s my makeup, not mascara, but my races
You should be painting
That pen was some bullshit, so I picked up a paintbrush
I always think this will flub but it…
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(interpolates lyrics from “Something” by The Beatles and “Back in the USSR” by The Beatles)
[Chorus 1]
Mother Nature really knocks me out
I leave the death behind
It’s how you move makes me scream and shout
And I don’t want to leave Her…
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[Verse 1]
Do you hear the sound of the insects?
Birds all pronouncing dialect
Languages ancient as the sound of wind
Crowning it, the seasons are circadian
There’s no need to fear when you’re breathing air
Water is the other side of the…
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Fast rising multi-talented music artist popularly known as RealDreamboi never stops to amaze his fans as he drops a mind blowing inspirational song titled “Alafia (Peace)” to kick-start the year 2023.
He featured Lekzycon which makes the song…
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Clear the Air
C Maiorano
What did we say??
To make it fade to gray
What did we do??
Consume and pollute
Where did they go??
Choking flowers don’t grow
Where did we fail??
To weave this tragic tale
Who cares??
About what we share…
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Give It Time
Boudreau
I just stopped by to get high, trade a smile and drop off this little tune
This melody its been haunting me
Lately, i swear i hear it wanting you
I got a lyric but lets be clear its more just a state of mind
And…
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This Wretched Vessel has a lot of post hardcore, Pop punk, punk, and leaning toward metal guitar riffs... but they have a shoegaze side. The only reason I even own a pedalboard is because of their guitarist.
The lyric content is more meta…
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Yacht rock.
Every time I see your smile
I feel like I’ve come home
And every time you stay a while
Is the best day that I’ve known
You’re the one that lights my way
Brings brightness to my day
And I just have to say
Don’t want it…
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NO CHOICE is the top track in SO WRONG DELUXE. A body work idea which was created by ADEJORO OLUWATIMILEHIN STEPHEN also known as REALDREAMBOI
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This one starts with a promise made long ago (reference Genesis 9:13). On the way home from work one rainy/sunny day years ago, I saw a very vibrant rainbow and upon seeing it the chorus just popped into my head. I kept humming it repeatedly so…
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Two independently recorded tenor sax tracks, each processed by an EHX Voice Box, panned left and right. A third, centre, track was made by combining the two, subjecting that to noise reduction using the entire file as the template, adding reverb…
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This song was inspired by Roger and Chris's works, so I have made a voice synth mix for the DADA event at sound in.. :) mmmm all I really say with voice is dada but yeah I might of snuck in a tada IDK a closer listen will tell-
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Sound source is The Crutch (gotta think up a better name, but that'll do for now), which is an old wooden crutch where the bottom part can swivel, and a guitar string is attached going from one of the height-adjustment screw holes up to the hand…
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I originally recorded this track to test out settings on my EHX Grand Canyon delay/echo/looper in 2020. In late 2021, I had Jasper Guitar Company, LLC do a custom build for me that was a combination of their Olam and Deja VuDoo models. I call…
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2022 Song of the Week - Week 7
This is a little better effort. I might come back to this one and make the transitions to and from the break a lot cooler.
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Another little ditty. A bit different, just me and my Guitar ( tuned to Open D ) and recorded on my i-Pad ( Garageband ) very few tweaks.
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inspired by some of those old guitar instrumental compilation albums from the 60s with all those Bakersfield and Nashville session guitarists.
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Written for the RPM Challenge's Record Every Month thing back in June and left unfinished and forgotten about until earlier today. I had some vocals to record and wanted something to use to warm up and I found this just waiting for me and finished…
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Having put together an orchestral version of this amazing song, the haunting composition by Michael Kiwanuka (theme from Big Little Lies, Sky Atlantic) here is my take on a conventional band arrangement, and featuring the lovely voice of my friend…
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This is an older song. featuring my friend Hans Nooitgedagt Sr on guitar
The rest is done by me.
Pretty dark lyrics, feeling much better now :-)
KC
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Parents of friends around me dying
And in the midst…
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Cover version of the song "Happy" by prolifically excellent Angie Fights Crime, off their 2014 album Yield.
https://alonetone.com/angiefightscrime/playlists/yield/happy-4
Go check out the original version.
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Acoustic and me ....Thanks for listening
When you say those three little words close to my ear
And they buzz inside there meaning is clear
Are those words of love true when you say you lov me
Night-time when you're not here, my head…
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A silly one that I needed to get out of my system ......
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